The thrilling potential of 'SixthSense' technology

1. Camera: A webcam captures an object in view and tracks the user's hand gestures. It sends the data to the smart phone.

2. Colored Markers: Marking the user's fingers with red, yellow, green, and blue tape helps the webcam recognize gestures. Mistry is working on gesture-recognition algorithms that could eliminate the need for the markers.

3. Projector: A tiny LED projector displays data sent from the smart phone on any surface in view--object, wall, or person. Mistry hopes to start using laser projectors to increase the brightness.

4. Smart Phone: A Web-enabled smart phone in the user's pocket processes the video data, using vision algorithms to identify the object. Other software searches the Web and interprets the hand gestures.

Courtesy: Technology review

Add Your Location to Your Gmail Signature

To try it, turn on Location in Signature from the Labs tab under Settings, then go to your signature preferences and check the box next to "Append your location to the signature."

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Eco friendly font!

A Netherlands company named SPRANQ creative communications has come up with EcoFont - 'the font with holes' - that it claims to consume 20% less ink cartridge when printed. The font is opensource and free for use, downloadable from http://www.ecofont.eu/ecofont_en.html

GMAIL -Spice up your inbox with colors and themes

Gmail added themes. Once the new option is enabled in your account (as usually, Gmail's new features are slowly rolled out), you'll find a tab named "Themes" in the settings page and you'll be able to choose from 30 themes. >>> More

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Microsoft Office Comes to the Browser

The next release of Microsoft Office will include browser-based versions of some of its main office software products - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.
The apps will work in IE, Firefox and Safari browsers >>> More

Stop Sending Emails You Later Regret

To help users with their impulsiveness, the folks at Google Labs have released Mail Goggles, a new Gmail feature that will give you the extra time needed to think twice before sending a potentially compromising email. It accomplishes its function by asking you a few math questions before your email is sent on its way, making sure you have plenty of time to reconsider your decision.

By default, Mail Goggles is only active late night on the weekend as that is the time you're most likely to need it. Once enabled, you can adjust when it's active in the General settings.

Hopefully Mail Goggles will prevent many of you out there from sending messages you wish you hadn't.

Hoping Apple’s ‘Brick’ Is First All-Screen Laptop

Apple’s “Brick” would be a hybrid laptop/tablet/ebook that dispenses with a physical keyboard and trackpad in favor of a virtual, adaptive UI that blends multitouch, gestures and its own orientation to switch between different modes:

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Google Enters Browser Wars

Beta version of Google Chrome will be released today in more than 100 countries.

• Google Chrome is Google’s open source browser project.
  

• The browser will include a JavaScript Virtual Machine called V8. >>>

• Google Chrome will use special tabs.
• The browser has an address bar with auto-completion features.
• As a default homepage Chrome presents you with a kind of “speed dial” feature, similar to the one of Opera.
• Chrome has a privacy mode; Google says you can create an “incognito” window “and nothing that occurs in that window is ever logged on your computer.”
• Web apps can be launched in their own browser window without address bar and toolbar.
• To fight malware and phishing attempts, Chrome is constantly downloading lists of harmful sites. >>> More

10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know for 2008

• EEG Game Controllers
• Self-Healing Materials
• High-k Transistors
• Real-World Web
• Clear-pixel Cameras
• Pay-Per-Glance Ads
• Flexible Displays
• Embedded Voice Recognition
• Self-Defending Bots
• Nano Cancer Therapy

Yahoo Kickstart
Get ready to kickstart your career

- CONNECT with peers and alumni
- SHARE your professional profile
- FIND people at companies you like

>>> Get started NOW

LinkedIn adds profile photos

From tomorrow (Friday 28, 2007) LinkedIn members will have a new option available: the ability to add a professional photo to their profile.
For more details >>> visit

Yahoo’s latest social networking service - MASH
From: Prasanna @ Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd (Bangalore)

Mash is a new approach to your profile that brings your people together and keeps things interesting. Mash is invite-only right now
1. You can make starter profiles for your friends.
2. You can leave your profile open to contributions by trusted friends.
3. You can customize your — or your friend’s :) — profile with modules from a growing gallery of apps.

Visit >>> Mash | Mashblog | Screenshot

USB Fan

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Today's TECH

Motorola signs deal to put projectors in phones >>> More

Folder Lock without any software

From: Rajarajan @ Tech Mahindra (Singapore)

Open Notepad and copy the below code and save as locker.bat. At first time start it will create folder with Locker automatically for u. Don't forget to change your password in the code its shown the place where to type your password. after creation of Locker folder again click on the locker.bat.it will ask.press Y then Locker folder will be disappeared. again to get it click on locker.bat. and give ur password u will get the folder again.

cls
@ECHO OFF
title Folder Locker
if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020- 3AEA-1069- A2DD-08002B30309 D}" goto UNLOCK
if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER
:CONFIRM
echo Are you sure u want to Lock the folder(Y/N)
set/p "cho=>"
if %cho%==Y goto LOCK
if %cho%==y goto LOCK
if %cho%==n goto END
if %cho%==N goto END
echo Invalid choice.
goto CONFIRM
:LOCK
ren Locker "Control Panel.{21EC2020- 3AEA-1069- A2DD-08002B30309 D}"
attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020- 3AEA-1069- A2DD-08002B30309 D}"
echo Folder locked
goto End
:UNLOCK
echo Enter password to Unlock folder
set/p "pass=>"
if NOT %pass%==type your password here goto FAIL
attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020- 3AEA-1069- A2DD-08002B30309 D}"
ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020- 3AEA-1069- A2DD-08002B30309 D}" Locker
echo Folder Unlocked successfully
goto End
:FAIL
echo Invalid password
goto end
:MDLOCKER
md Locker
echo Locker created successfully
goto End
:End

Nivio - world’s first Windows based online desktop

Nivio is the smart new service that makes every computer yours

Your personal Windows desktop on any computer in the world. All you need is a web browser and internet access, and you'll find all your files and software just as you left them. >>> Visit <<<

WildCharger

WildCharge Inc., the leader in wire-free electric power delivery, is set to begin selling its much anticipated WildCharger™ – the eye-catching, ultra thin pad that delivers full power to WildCharge-enabled device resting on it – to consumers on July 7th, 2007.

No more will you have to deal with the clutter of cords, chargers, adapters and congested outlets for your mobile electronic devices. A single WildCharger™ is all you will need at your home, office or on the road. In fact, charging a mobile device will soon be as simple as placing it on a table…
Just place any device that is fitted with a WildCharge adapter on the WildCharger™ surface and it will immediately receive full power for charging and operating! You can even place multiple enabled devices on the pad, simultaneously powering them all, even if their power requirements differ!

SAFARI 3 -The world's best browser. Now on Windows, too.

Experience the web, Apple style with safari: the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world.

>>> Download Beta Now <<<

(Safari for Windows XP or Vista)

The fastest web browser on any platform, Safari loads pages up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2.
And it executes JavaScript up to 2.8 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2.

Yahoo! Mail unlimited storage

Yahoo has started to roll out unlimited storage for Yahoo Mail. Once you’ve got unlimited storage, you’ll see the storage meter disappear from the top right. The complete rollout, according to Yahoo, could take a few months.

PHOTOsynth

Photosynth is an amazing new technology from Microsoft Live Labs that will change forever the way you think about digital photos.

With Photosynth you can:

• Walk or fly through a scene to see photos from any angle.
• Seamlessly zoom in or out of a photo whether it's megapixels or gigapixels in size.
• See where pictures were taken in relation to one another.
• Find similar photos to the one you're currently viewing.
• Send a collection - or a particular view of one - to a friend.

>>> more
>>> The Making of Photosynth (Video)